Politics

Sunday, November 4th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentine elected president meets with foreign leaders

Argentine elected president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will be meeting this week Chilean president Michelle Bachelet and the head of the Spanish government Jose Luis Gonzalez Zapatero, her first interviews with foreign leaders since she won October 28.
Sunday, November 4th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
A divided Venezuela by Chavez reforms takes to the streets

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans marched through the capital Caracas on Sunday, in a show of support for the constitution reforms that will greatly expand President Hugo Chavez's executive powers and eliminate presidential term limits allowing him to run for re-election indefinitely.
Saturday, November 3rd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Malvinas charter ban, “no policy change” insists Argentina

Argentina's charter flights policy towards the Falkland Islands “remains intact since established in November 2003”, and from then on “no non regular flights, from third flag commercial airlines, between third countries and Islas Malvinas have been authorized”, reports Friday the Buenos Aires press quoting Foreign Affairs ministry sources.
Saturday, November 3rd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Guatemala voting for president in neck-and-neck runoff

Guatemalans are set to vote Sunday for president in a second-round election between hardline General Otto Perez and social democrat Alvaro Colom.
Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News update

Headlines: 'For the country I love'; Charter flight on the way; Helicopters for FIGAS?; Wife to wear the trousers at Casa Rosada.
Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Brazil hikes military spending with new defense plan

Brazil has announced it plans to boost military spending by more than 50% in 2008, to around an estimated 5.4 billion US dollars and draw up a new defense plan, but told its neighbors they should not worry.
Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
“Supreme Chavez” reforms approved by Venezuelan assembly

Venezuela's National Assembly gave on Friday its final approval to a package of constitutional reforms that strengthens the powers of President Hugo Chavez and his Socialist-Bolivarian republic project.
Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Haiti Sri Lankan UN troops repatriated for sexual abuse

The United Nations announced Friday that it will repatriate more than 100 Sri Lankan peacekeepers serving with the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti on disciplinary grounds.
Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Bachelet sees poverty as the main threat to regional democracy

Chile's Michelle Bachelet who will be hosting the Ibero-American summit next week defended the legitimacy of Latinamerican governments, particularly Venezuela, and insisted that the prevailing consensus among leaders is that poverty represents the main threat for the region.
Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Malvinas issue in UN Ban Ki-moon's Buenos Aires agenda

“Strengthening multilateralism” and the Malvinas issue figure in the agenda United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will be considering with Argentine officials when he visits Buenos Aires next week.